About the farm:

A good farm located in the community “El Volcan”, Municipaluty Dipilto, Department of Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua .
There are two permanent water springs. I bought this farm in 2000. The farm has a total of 4 mz out of which 3.5 mz are under caturra and catuai. This farm produce 70 QQ and we cultivate also musace and citrus fruits.

About his family:

I have wife and four kids, two boys and two girls. My mother is member of our household as well.

What is the secret of your success?

The secrets to have a good production are: adequate fertilization system builds, to cut only rape coffee, to make an adequate fertilization process, a good dry mill management, and to transport the coffee on time to dry mill.

How do you feel being a winner of the Cup of Excellence Nicaragua 2010?

As a winner, I feel very proud with a wish to continue forward and improve my production system.

His experience in the Cup of Excellence:

I think that the COE is an opportunity for us, the coffee producers, to present the quality of the coffee that we are producing in order to offer it to the buyers of the to the entire world.

Rank	24
Farm Name	La Buena Etancia
Farmer/Rep.	Absalón Antonio González Arauz
Score	85.62
Altitude	1200
Country	Nicaragua
Year	2010
Size (30kg boxes)	42
City	Dipilto
Region	Nueva Segovia
Program	Nicaragua 2010
Month	–
Aroma/Flavor	bitter chocolate, brown sugar, walnut, honey, vanilla aroma, cinnamon, black current, caramel
Acidity	structured, complex, citric, dry
Other	short and sweet
Processing system	Washed, Sun
Variety	Caturra
Coffee Growing Area	2.27
Farm Size	2.8
Auction Lot Size (lbs.)	2771.18
High bid	5.30
Total value	14687.25
High bidders	honuKATOCOFFEE Inc.